This project aims to evaluate the effectiveness of CS-ADL (Cognitive Stimulation in Activities of Daily Living). CS-ADL is an occupational therapist-led, group cognitive stimulation program for people living with mild-to-moderate dementia that aims to enhance their functional performance, alongside their social and cognitive functioning.
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The aim is to evaluate the utility of a Connected Health model in supporting people with dementia and their carergivers in sustaining the patient at home. We propose that the CH model allows enhanced information- sharing between patient, carergiver and healthcare team, enabling streamlined clinical management, empowering the caregiver and enhancing the ability of the caregiver/patient dyad to cope.
Project Aim(s):
(i) To Identify tiRNA/sncRNA fingerprints in AD, ALS, FTD and PD human disease i-neurons.
(ii) To determine if tiRNAs affect the survival of i-neurons from controls and ALS, PD and FTD models.
Funded by the Atlantic Philantropies and supported by the Department of Health, Creating Excellence in Dementia Care: A Research Reivew for Ireland’s National Dementia Stratergy presents key findings emerging from a research review conducted to inform the development of Ireland’s future National Dementia Strategy.
Funded by the Atlantic Philantropies and supported by the Department of Health, Creating Excellence in Dementia Care: A Research Reivew for Ireland’s National Dementia Stratergy presents key findings emerging from a research review conducted to inform the development of Ireland’s future National Dementia Strategy.
DARES is a three-year mixed methods project funded by the Health Research Board which aims to develop and evaluate the effectiveness of a structured educational reminiscence programme for staff. Using a cluster randomized trial it aims to evaluate the impact and effectiveness of the reminiscence-based programme on levels of agitation exhibited by residents with dementia and on staff attitude towards residents with dementia and perceived care burden.
Deciphering ALS Heterogeneity: A Precision Medicine Approach to Network-based Biomarker Development.
Project Aim(s):
(i) To continue to characterise the clinical subphenotypes of ALS and to further elucidate the observed clinical and genetic overlap between ALS and neuropsychiatric disorders by detailed study of endophenotypes in first and second degree relatives.
(ii) To identify heterogeneous disease subcohorts based on genomic signatures, including those that overlap between ALS and neuropsychiatric illness.
Project Aim(s):
(i) Using existing data, to characterize the impact of ALS stage, cognitive and behavioural effects in ALS on caregiver burden, and to ascertain the unmet psychological and psychosocial needs of caregivers.
(ii) To provide new data focussing on subjective and objective aspects of caregiver burden that can inform psychologically tailored interventions that enable self-management of carer burden.
Dementia Elevator is an education and empowerment programme developed by DCU and the HSE (with the support of Atlantic Philanthropies) to help individuals, communities and health professionals to engage appropriately with people with dementia. Among its objectives are dementia awareness training and the delivery of training/information programmes to the general public, health professionals, individuals and family caregivers.